Frances Patton, LMFT

Frances Patton is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), a credential that indicates specialized training in helping individuals, couples, and families strengthen relationships and navigate life transitions. With 13 years of experience, she supports people who are ready for something better and want more than simple reassurance - they want a therapist who can help them move toward meaningful change.

Her work often focuses on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, and coping with major life changes. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication problems, family conflict, parenting stress, anger, and challenges like loneliness, codependency, abandonment and attachment concerns, infidelity, and post-traumatic stress. She works with couples, individuals, and families, tailoring care to what each person or relationship needs most.

For couples, Frances is trained in the Gottman Method and Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), two well-established approaches that help partners better understand patterns that keep them stuck and build more supportive connection. She brings compassion to the therapy process and aims to be direct and helpful rather than simply saying what a client wants to hear.

Frances also understands that personal struggle can shape the desire for change. She shares that she has experienced depression and has navigated a difficult marriage and divorce, and that her own work in therapy influenced her decision to become a therapist. Clients can also request Christian counseling, and she is equally comfortable providing non-religious therapy, based on each client’s preferences.